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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!

Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.

What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.